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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m gearing up for two WORD Chch sessions with these authors, who are connected by one prominent person.

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Alarming juxtaposition on X/Twitter

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Breton Dukes on the front of the Sunday paper

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

One of the coolest photos ever taken in New Zealand. RIP a true original.

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I’d like to think that if TS Eliot had a job writing about comedians for a newspaper, he might have started a story like this

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

At the back of an Anglican church in north Canterbury

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

What does Uber know that I don’t know?

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Yes, really enjoyed this. It’s funny, tender, respectful. And some of the archival clips are just fantastic.

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The Clean sort of make the cover of the NZ Woman's Weekly

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Two Robertson brothers have books out, named after songs

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Sam Neill's performance as pervy painter Norman Lindsay in Sirens, alongside uptight vicar Hugh Grant, seems especially overlooked in the recent top 20

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Still catching up on Maurice Gee.

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Inspired by the Australian PM, I voted for the 10 best Australian songs

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A free copy of Saturday Night Fever* to anyone who can name the link between these two books *not really

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Send him to outer space to find another race

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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The Listener is really good again, isn't it? The two best columnists in the country (Braunias, Grimshaw); great cover lines. Approaching golden-age Listener (c.1999-2003).